San Giovanni decollato

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.

• Amleto PalermiScreenplay
• Amleto PalermiDirector
• Sacha DerewitskyOriginal Music Composer
• Cesare ZavattiniScreenplay
• Aldo VerganoScreenplay

• TotòMastro Agostino Miciacio
• Titina De FilippoConcetta Miciacio
• Bella Starace SainatiDonna Provvidenza, farmer's wife
• Silvana JachinoSerafina Miciacio
• Franco CoopDon Raffaele, the barber
• Osvaldo GenazzaniGiorgio Maria Santapola
• Augusto Di GiovanniDon Peppino Esposito
• Mario SilettiTeodoro Cupis
• Tommaso MarcelliniDon Benedetto, the farmer
• Eduardo PassarelliOrazio, the lamp-lighter
• Giacomo AlmiranteThe Judge
• Edmondo StaraceA Clerk